Director

Runje Shaw

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 2446916

Known for: Production

Born: January 1, 1896

Died: February 17, 1975

Age: 79

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 1933

Years active: 9

Also known as

Shao Zuiweng • Shao Renjie • 邵醉翁 • Shao Tongzhang

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Director (3)Producer (1)

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Biography

Runje Shaw (1896–1975), also known as Shao Zuiweng (C.W. Shaw) and Shao Renjie, was a Chinese film entrepreneur, producer and director. The eldest of the Shaw brothers, in 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique Film Productions) in Shanghai, which became one of the top three film production companies in pre-WWII Republic of China, and the beginning of the Shaw Brothers media empire. Under Runje's leadership, his younger brothers Runde, Runme, and Run Run established branches of Tianyi in Hong Kong and Singapore. Runje retired from filmmaking after Tianyi's Shanghai base was destroyed in 1937 during the Japanese invasion, but his younger brothers, particularly Sir Run Run, rebuilt Tianyi's offshoots in Hong Kong and Singapore, of which Shaw Brothers Studio came to dominate filmmaking in Hong Kong. (Wikipedia)

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